Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Speed of Life




THE SPEED OF LIFE

Ten years ago, Michael Neary and I wrote a paper for the British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2000 called The Speed of Life: The significance of Karl Marx’s concept of socially necessary labour time. The paper was selected by the BSA’s Publications Committee for inclusion in the annual ‘book of the conference’ for 2000.

We revised and edited our paper, and it came out as Time and Speed in the Social Universe of Capital, in Social Conceptions of Time: Structure and Process in Work and Everyday Life, edited by Graham Crow and Sue Heath (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

See Amazon.co.uk:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Social-Conceptions-Time-Explorations-Sociological/dp/0333984994/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292087985&sr=1-1

And

Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Social-Conceptions-Time-Structure-Everyday/dp/0333984994/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292088141&sr=1-1

In addition, our original paper was also put out on The Flow of Ideas website on 13th May 2006. It is in two parts.

Recently, the journal Principia Dialectica has alerted folks to our original paper at The Flow of Ideas on their blog. The relevant post is called ‘Marx, Einstein, Postone...’ and was posted to the Principia Dialectica blog on 1st December 2010. This has led to a lot of traffic going to the original paper posted to The Flow of Ideas in 2006. However, the link provided there does not work, so people have been coming to the paper by other means (including a general link given for The Flow of Ideas in the Principia Dialectica blog’s ‘Links’ section).

Thus, to make it easier for people to get to our original paper I have included the working link (and full reference) here, as:

Neary, M. & Rikowski, G. (2000) The Speed of Life: The significance of Karl Marx's concept of socially necessary labour-time, a paper presented at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2000, 'Making Time - Marking Time', University of York, 17 -20 April, online at:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=articles&sub=Speed%20of%20Life%20-%20Part%20One

The Principia Dialectica blog home page is at:
http://www.principiadialectica.co.uk/blog/

The page with their blog about our paper, ‘Marx, Einstein and Postone...’ is at:
http://www.principiadialectica.co.uk/blog/?author=1&paged=2

Glenn Rikowski

The Flow of Ideas:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk
All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski:
http://rikowski.wordpress.com

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Historical Materialism and Functional Explanation - an essay by Alexander Rikowski



HISTORICAL MATERIALISM AND FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION – AN ESSAY BY ALEXANDER RIKOWSKI

Does historical materialism need to appeal to functional explanation? If not, how can historical materialism otherwise be made consistent? If so, is this a strength or a weakness?

Alexander Rikowski

An essay written as an undergraduate in the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

London, June 2010

This essay by Alexander Rikowski can be viewed at:

Rikowski, G. (2010) Historical Materialism and Functional Explanation, an essay written as an undergraduate in the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, June, online at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/index.php?page=articles&sub=Historical%20Materialism%20and%20Functional%20Explanation


Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
The Flow of Ideas:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk

All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski: http://rikowski.wordpress.com

Marx, Capitalism and Justice - an essay by Alexander Rikowski



MARX, CAPITALISM AND JUSTICE

Marx did not think that capitalism is unjust, and, in fact, said that it is just.’ Discuss.

Alexander Rikowski

An essay written as an undergraduate in the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

This essay on ’Marx. Capitalism and Justice’ by Alexander Rikowski can be viewed at:
Rikowski, A. (2010) Marx, Capitalism and Justice, an essay written as an undergraduate in the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, June, online at:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk/index.php?page=articles&sub=Marx%20and%20Justice


Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
The Flow of Ideas:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk

Friday, December 3, 2010

Actions, Reasons and Events - an essay by Alexander Rikowski




ACTIONS, REASONS AND EVENTS

“Is it right to define an action as an event caused by a reason?“

This is an essay written by Alexander Rikowski in 2010 when he was an undergraduate in Philosophy at King’s College London.

The essay can be viewed on ‘The Flow of Ideas’ web site:

Rikowski, A. (2010) Actions, Reasons and Events, An essay written as an undergraduate in the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, June, online at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/index.php?page=articles&sub=Actions%20Reasons%20Events


Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
The Flow of Ideas:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk

Intentionality - an essay by Alexander Rikowski



INTENTIONALITY – AN ESSAY BY ALEXANDER RIKOWSKI

“What is intentionality? What philosophical problems does it present?”

This is an essay written by Alexander Rikowski when he was an undergraduate student in Philosophy at King’s College London.

You can view the essay at:

Rikowski, A. (2010) Intentionality, An essay written as an undergraduate in the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, June, online at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/index.php?page=articles&sub=Intentionality


Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
The Flow of Ideas:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk

Physicalism - an essay by Alexander Rikowski



PHYSICALISM – AN ESSAY BY ALEXANDER RIKOWSKI

‘Mary could know all the physical facts, but not know what it is like to see red. So physicalism is false’ Discuss

This is an essay written by Alexander Rikowski when he was an undergraduate in Philosophy at King’s College London.

You can view the essay at:

Rikowski, A. (2010) Physicalism, An essay written as an undergraduate in the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, June, online at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/index.php?page=articles&sub=Physicalism


Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
The Flow of Ideas:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk

Alienated Labour - an essay by Alexander Rikowski



ALIENATED LABOUR: AN ESSAY BY ALEXANDER RIKOWSKI

What is alienated labour, and what would unalienated labour be like?

An essay written as an undergraduate in the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

Alexander Rikowski

This essay on Alienated Labour by Alexander Rikowski can be viewed at:

Rikowski, A. (2010) Alienated Labour, An essay written as an undergraduate in the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, June, online at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/index.php?page=articles&sub=Alienated%20Labour

About Alexander Rikowski: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/index.php?page=about&sub=Alexander%20Rikowski

Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
The Flow of Ideas:
http://www.flowideas.co.uk